In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 08:48 PM 11/4/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote: > >For that matter, why are we avoiding filenames with more then one dot? It'd > >be easy to teach a Makefile to get core.ops.c from core.ops; much harder to > >tell it how to get core_ops.c. (Note that in the current Makefile, we > >special-case it.) > > Some platforms only allow a single dot in their filenames. (Could be > worse--we could be shooting for 8.3 uniqueness...) We could just have a .ops -> .c rule and create core.c from core.ops and so on. If we're worred about basename clashes then we can always move all the ops files into an ops subdirectory. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/
